Australia’s first dedicated, industry-hosted Trade Fair & Conference for carbon market participants & service providers across Australasia, Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2008 will be held at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre 30-31 October 2008.

The event is to be hosted by leading carbon market industry associations Environment Business Australia and the Asia-Pacific Emissions Trading Forum , with the Queensland Government and Gold Coast City Council.

Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2008 will be a high-level market event that brings Australian business leaders and their international counterparts together – this will be a premium networking event as well as a source for the latest information concerning carbon markets in Australasia. 

Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2008 will comprise a carbon market trade fair integrated with a conference program of keynote plenary and panel presentations, and a series of technical workshops addressing cutting-edge issues in evolving carbon markets and low carbon technologies.  The trade fair provides an opportunity for private sector and government businesses to showcase their activities, services and products in the emerging carbon market.

Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2008 will be attended by a diverse range of businesses including energy providers and other significant industries with corporate abatement strategies, carbon offset providers, carbon market consultants, carbon market brokers and legal advisers, banks, investment banks, superannuation funds, institutional investors, international financial institutions, technology providers, and suppliers of energy efficient and ‘cleantech’ products – all of whom play a role in assisting businesses to reduce, manage, mitigate and offset carbon emissions.

Participants and exhibitors at Carbon Market Expo Australasia 2008 will include:   

	Administrators of government and/or private sector market-based emissions reduction initiatives
	Managers of carbon offset projects and carbon offset wholesalers & retailers (including forest sink offsets)
	Businesses with significant corporate or product emissions reduction strategies
	Businesses manufacturing or retailing low carbon and energy efficient technologies
	Providers of carbon accounting, auditing & verification services
	Providers of other carbon market advisory & facilitation services such as carbon pools, brokers, exchanges, carbon market legal advisers, and risk managers (insurers)
	Research and education institutions active in carbon cycle R&D, low emissions technology development, and carbon market education